diff --git a/features/landing/backend-api/src/seeds/seed-translations.ts b/features/landing/backend-api/src/seeds/seed-translations.ts
index 59e50c15e..aecfdb6a8 100755
--- a/features/landing/backend-api/src/seeds/seed-translations.ts
+++ b/features/landing/backend-api/src/seeds/seed-translations.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 /**
  * Seed English Translations from Static Files
  *
- * Reads all locale files from features/i18n/locales/en/ and seeds
- * them into the translations table with locale='en'.
+ * Reads all locale files from deployments/@domains/atlilith.www/root/locales/en/
+ * and seeds them into the translations table with locale='en'.
  *
  * Run with: npx tsx src/seeds/seed-translations.ts
  */
@@ -25,15 +25,17 @@ const dataSource = new DataSource({
   logging: false,
 })
 
-// Path to locale files (relative to this file in seeds/)
-const LOCALES_PATH = path.join(
+// Path to locale files — the authoritative EN content lives in deployments/@domains
+const PROJECT_ROOT = process.env.LILITH_PROJECT_ROOT ?? path.join(
   __dirname,
   '..', // up to src/
-  '..', // up to backend/
+  '..', // up to backend-api/
   '..', // up to landing/
   '..', // up to features/
-  'i18n', 'locales', 'en'
+  '..', // up to codebase/
+  '..', // up to project root
 )
+const LOCALES_PATH = path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'deployments', '@domains', 'atlilith.www', 'root', 'locales', 'en')
 
 /**
  * Flatten nested object to key paths